SensorScope: out-of-the-box environmental monitoring

Environmental monitoring constitutes an important field of application for wireless sensor networks. Given the severity of potential climate changes, environmental im-pact on cities, and pollution, it is a domain where sen-sor networks can have great impact and as such, is get-ting more and more attention. Current data collection tech-niques are indeed rather limited and make use of very ex-pensive sensing stations, leading to a lack of appropriate observations. In this paper, we present SensorScope, a col-laborative project between environmental and network re-searchers, that aims at providing an efficient and inexpen-sive out-of-the-box environmental monitoring system, based on a wireless sensor network. We especially focus on data gathering and present the hardware and network architec-ture of SensorScope. We also describe a real-world deploy-ment, which took place on a rock glacier in Switzerland, as well as the results we obtained